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TeamHealth sues UnitedHealthcare over denied payments for emergency services in Nevada

Healthcare Dive

The lawsuit alleges that UnitedHealthcare did not pay the Fremont physicians after treating an infant with a traumatic brain injury and a child with a ruptured appendix.

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In the EU, early patient engagement is a must-have for research projects

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Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Megadeals lift healthcare M&A revenues to record in Q2

Healthcare Dive

Fewer but larger deals are becoming the norm in the hospital sector, according to Kaufman Hall's latest update on deal activity.

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Study: Wearables can empower patients, but barriers prevent greater adoption

Mobi Health News

Researchers found three themes in their review of studies on wearables: the role of providers and potential benefits to care, driving behavior change and barriers to use.

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Optimizing Medical Waste Management: A Guide to Best Practices

Feeling overwhelmed by medical waste regulations? This comprehensive guide unravels the complexities of medical waste disposal, ensuring you stay compliant and prioritize safety. Inside you'll find: Clear categorization: Learn to precisely classify medical waste for proper handling and disposal. Labeling & Storage: Discover best practices for clear labeling and secure storage of medical waste.

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Molina to pay $150M for Wisconsin Medicaid firm in latest acquisition

Healthcare Dive

Acquisitions are key to Molina’s growth strategy, CEO Joe Zubretsky has said.

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How AI Can Advance Health Equity

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Sachin Patel, CEO at Apixio. The use of AI in healthcare is gaining fast traction, with the total market expected to grow over 46% CAGR, reaching $96 billion by 2028. While AI has the potential to improve health equity, intrinsic and extrinsic biases that exist from the lack of diverse data exacerbate the problem.

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Your State as a Determinant of Health: Sharecare’s 2021 Community Well-Being Index

Jane Sarashon

People whose sense of well-being shifted positively in the past two years are finding greater personal purpose and financial health, we see in Sharecare’s Community Well-Being Index – 2021 State Rankings Report. Sharecare has been annually tracking well-being across the 50 U.S. states since 2008. When the study launched, Well-Being Index evaluated five domains: physical, social, community, purpose, and financial.

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Providers fear penalties in states with abortion bans following Roe's fall

Healthcare Dive

Lawmakers and physicians discussed provider concerns surrounding penalties for performing emergency abortions in states with laws criminalizing the procedure during a Wednesday hearing.

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athenahealth Alums Launches Fold Health: Digital Health Tech Stack For Primary Care

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – A team of serial health tech entrepreneurs who sold their mobile EHR app to athenahealth has announced the launch of ed Fold Health , the first interoperable digital health tech stack for primary care. – Fold Health closed a round of $6M from former athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush, SkyFlow CEO Anshu Sharma, Saama Technologies CEO Vivek Sharma along with Anand Chandrasekharan from General Catalyst, Mohanjit Jolly from Iron Pillar , Gokul Rajaram from Firebolt Ve

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Teladoc's new CMO Vidya Raman-Tangella on the telehealth giant's clinical strategy and new products

Healthcare Dive

The executive caught up with Healthcare Dive to chat day one priorities, her vision for health equity, closing care gaps and why this might be the role she’s wanted all her career.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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Blue Cross NC Expands Mental Health for Children, Underserved Areas Through Collaboration with Headway

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – In its latest effort to address critical mental health needs in North Carolina, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) today announced it is expanding its network of behavioral health providers through a collaboration with Headway , a mental healthcare company that works with insurers to deliver high-value mental healthcare. . – Together the two companies will make it easier for Blue Cross NC members to quickly access – as soon as 48 hour

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Lack of payment pathway clarity hinders digital therapeutics, analysts say

Healthcare Dive

The Forrester Research report warns of a sector beset by payment issues, “snake oil” and “middling adoption.

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VR Changing Surgical Training is About Repetitions

Healthcare IT Today

When you first hear about VR (Virtual Reality) being used for medical training, it kind of sounds like a game or a joke and not a serious addition to a doctor’s training. However, the reality is that the technology and the research around surgical training using VR is very serious and much more than a game. What did surprise me was how VR surgical training was not so much a replacement to surgical training, but a great addition that takes the existing training to a new level.

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UCI Health Partners with Luna to Expand Access to Care with In-Home Outpatient Physical Therapy

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Luna , the leading provider of in-home physical therapy, has teamed up with UCI Health , to expand access to patient care by providing in-home physical therapy across Orange County, California. – With a focus on evidence-based care, UCI Health is the only academic health system in Orange County and the clinical arm of the University of California, Irvine.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Cardinal Health’s Outcomes™ acquires smart prescription platform ScalaMed

Healthcare IT Today

Acquisition pivots prescription management to patients, reduces administrative burden and offers connectivity at the point of prescribing. Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) today announced the acquisition of ScalaMed, a HIPAA-compliant, smart platform that transfers prescriptions directly to patients via a secure mobile app. The acquisition transfers ScalaMed’s technology and assets to Outcomes™, a Cardinal Health company.

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Wysa Secures $20M for AI-Powered Mental Health Chatbot

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Wysa , a Boston, MA-based AI digital platform for mental health, today announces it has secured $20M in financing led by HealthQuad , who along with British International Investment (BII), the UK’s development finance institution, joins earlier investors W Health Ventures , Kae Capital , Google Assistant Investments , and pi Ventures amongst others. – Funds will enable access to clinically evidenced digital therapeutics (DTx) in the US, UK, India and other glo

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Winners of the Digital Health Awards 2022 are revealed

Digital Health News

The latest crop of Digital Health Award winners have been announced, with categories ranging from Rising Star in Digital Nursing to Digital CEO of the Year. .

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Party’s Over: Health Plan Premiums Poised to Spike in 2023, After Period of Modest Growth

Center for Health Insurance Reform

Health insurers have begun to submit their proposed premium rates for 2023, and they're not looking pretty. CHIR's Sabrina Corlette dives into what is driving hefty premium increases in her annual review of the rate justifications insurers submit to state insurance departments. Continue reading → The post Party’s Over: Health Plan Premiums Poised to Spike in 2023, After Period of Modest Growth appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

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Everything You Wanted to Know About FACIS, but Didn’t Know to Ask

Speaker: Amy Anderson

FACIS® helps organizations mitigate patient and organizational risk. Maintaining compliance and safeguarding against fraud and abuse in today’s changing healthcare landscape can be challenging. Most healthcare organizations screen and monitor providers against the OIG but that’s only ONE of FACIS®’ primary sources. FACIS® pulls data for every taxonomy from the lowest level employee to the highest level licensed professional.

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Simon Bolton says NHS centre can be run more efficiently with less people

Digital Health News

NHS Digital's interim CEO has said he believes the centre of the NHS can be run more efficiently by reducing the headcount and moving resources.

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Tenet Healthcare Sued Over Data Breach; San Francisco Settles Data Breach Lawsuit

HIPAA Journal

Tenet Healthcare and Baptist Health are facing a class action lawsuit over a recently reported data breach that affected 1.2 million patients. The breach was detected on April 20, 2022, with the forensic investigation confirming an unauthorized third-party had accessed the IT networks of Baptist Medical Center or Resolute Health Hospital between March 31 and April 24, 2022, and removed files containing sensitive patient data.

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Mental health chatbot Wysa raises $20M

Mobi Health News

The startup announced a $5.5 million Series A raise in May 2021.

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Assisted Living Facility Sued after Resident Mistakenly Drank Dishwasher Soap and Died

Med-Net Compliance

A woman sued a Virginia assisted living facility alleging her husband, who was a resident there, died after mistakenly drinking dishwasher liquid that he thought was cranberry juice. The resident, who was 95, was noted to have unspecified dementia with behavioral disturbance and altered mental status. He was independently mobile and had a wandering behavior.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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It’s Your Call July 2022

Total Medical Compliance Resources

OSHA: Our office provides laser treatment. What OSHA specific regulation(s) address laser plume (smoke)? Currently, OSHA has no specific standards for laser/electrosurgery plume hazards but note that smoke byproduct could produce upper respiratory irritation, cause potential in-vitro mutagenesis, and generate infectious viral fragments. Thus, OSHA could cite under these two regulations: 134(a)(1) -Inadequate Personal Protective Equipment. 1030(d)(3)(i) -Employee exposures to toxic and hazardous

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Health IT Business News – July 14, 2022

HealthIT Answers

Business news from SonarMD, Chicago ARC, Ribbon Health, Turquoise Health, Zane Networks, Cotiviti, DrFirst, RxBenefits, Tria Health, Inovalon Inc., StressPal, and more. The post Health IT Business News – July 14, 2022 appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Celebrate the “Insiders” of Healthcare Value During Value Analysis Week | symplr

Symplr

A conversation with former AHVAP president Dee Donatelli, RN, BSN, MBA. Today is the first day of Value Analysis Week, organized by the Association of Value Analysis Professionals (AHVAP) to recognize the critical role value analysis professionals play in healthcare. These individuals— a nucleus of clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals —bridge the gap between clinical practice and the supply chain.

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Health IT Issues that Deserve a Second Read – June 2022

HealthIT Answers

The thought leaders in our community are good about sharing their thoughts on the issues of today. Here are the top read and shared guest posts of June that we think deserve sharing again. The post Health IT Issues that Deserve a Second Read – June 2022 appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Ensure Continuous Patient Care: How to Avoid Disruptions Due to Ransomware

The industry has seen an increasing pace of ransomware, zero-day, and remote-code execution attacks. Learn how to defend against these against these attacks in this eBook.

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Bias in AI: It’s a matter of time

Digital Health News

David Newey, deputy CIO at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, explores bias in artificial intelligence and what needs to be done.

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Patient Engagement Functionality to Improve Practices’ Bottom Line

HealthIT Answers

By Kim Commito - With urgent care clinics becoming the go-to sites for on-demand healthcare in the U.S., patient engagement technology has become necessary for clinics to succeed in the highly concentrated, competitive marketplace. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated patient expectations and demands for. The post Patient Engagement Functionality to Improve Practices’ Bottom Line appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Carolina Behavioral Health Alliance Reports Breach of the PHI of 130,000 Health Plan Members

HIPAA Journal

The Winston-Salem, NC-based managed behavioral health organization, Carolina Behavioral Health Alliance (CBHA), the administrator of behavioral health benefits for Wake Forest University and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, has recently announced it was the victim of a ransomware attack. The attack was detected on March 20, 2022, and resulted in computer systems being disabled.

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As Congress, Biden administration squabble over COVID-19 funds, an ongoing pandemic response posture strains public health

Healthcare Dive

Congress and the administration are at odds on the need to purchase more vaccines and therapeutics while the public health workforce is beleaguered, former Moderna VP Richard Hughes argues.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.